(Ed's.Note: First Brands Group is an American auto parts company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It owns brands such as Trico, FRAM, Raybestos, and Autolite. First Brands Group generated revenues of more than $5 billion in 2024 from manufacturing and distributing automotive products, primarily into aftermarket retail channels.)
By Diana Eva Alvarado
Valley Central
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A company with facilities across the nation announced that nearly 600 of its employees will be laid off next month in Brownsville.
Auto parts giant First Brands Group is cutting thousands of jobs nationwide as part of its ongoing financial crisis.
The company filed a WARN notice with the Texas Workforce Commission on Wednesday that 345 workers at its Billy Mitchell facility, 183 at its Titan Distribution Center, and 43 workers at its ASC plant will lose their jobs on April 30.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act is a federal requirement mandating that businesses must provide at least 60 days’ notice before a plant will close or issue mass layoffs.
First Brands Group is a worldwide company that makes automotive parts. In all, 571 workers are losing their jobs in South Texas. Nationwide, many of the company’s plants will be shutting their doors on the same date.
The company is also closing facilities at maquiladora plants all along the U.S.-Mexico border, including those in Matamoros and Juarez.
Last month in Juarez, some workers set up camp at one of the First Brands facilities in fear that it might be closing.
In September, the Michigan-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Several company officials are accused of a fraud scheme.
Maquiladora manufacturers in Mexico employ nearly 3 million people and represent more than 60 percent of the country’s total exports, according to the National Council of the Maquiladora and Manufacturing Export Industry.
Border Report correspondents Julian Resendiz and Sandra Sanchez contributed to this report.
Auto parts giant First Brands Group is cutting thousands of jobs nationwide as part of its ongoing financial crisis.
The company filed a WARN notice with the Texas Workforce Commission on Wednesday that 345 workers at its Billy Mitchell facility, 183 at its Titan Distribution Center, and 43 workers at its ASC plant will lose their jobs on April 30.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act is a federal requirement mandating that businesses must provide at least 60 days’ notice before a plant will close or issue mass layoffs.
First Brands Group is a worldwide company that makes automotive parts. In all, 571 workers are losing their jobs in South Texas. Nationwide, many of the company’s plants will be shutting their doors on the same date.
The company is also closing facilities at maquiladora plants all along the U.S.-Mexico border, including those in Matamoros and Juarez.
Last month in Juarez, some workers set up camp at one of the First Brands facilities in fear that it might be closing.
In September, the Michigan-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Several company officials are accused of a fraud scheme.
Maquiladora manufacturers in Mexico employ nearly 3 million people and represent more than 60 percent of the country’s total exports, according to the National Council of the Maquiladora and Manufacturing Export Industry.
Border Report correspondents Julian Resendiz and Sandra Sanchez contributed to this report.
12 comments:
cause was fraud? that explains it, company got greedy, shame shame shame
God protect these employees and their families...hope Brownsville's Chamber of Commerce, TSC and the Mayor help these employees...... the future is not good: no job, no money, despair, agony and violence when the stress is high and no job prospects.
Nah! This is the environment America created, our heroes are nothing but pigs and rats. We're truly disgusting.
KXIQ request, Kanye West - Runaway (Extended Video Version)
More reasons to remember ENRON. Some people have no shame. They have no soul or conscious.
Y el BCIC o el BDC
Donde estan?
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Trump cleaned out investors in Atlantic City Casinos enterprises.
Just another business deal likecTrico going to make a record tiny investment payoff really really big for Trumpian
like idiots.
Hell is paved with characters like Tricos abf Trumpies.
Pathological crooks with no conscience.
God Bless America!
"You gotta know when to hold them and know when to fold them"
KOK a little suggestion: your comments are good but quit putting that KXIQ shit on there. It dilutes your content.
-Chelss 😘
If you want to talk about crooks talk about your city and county politicians.
K, OK.
Get ready for the future! Many employees will soon lose their jobs to the fast advancing AI. How are the commies going to address this issue? Stagnant commies have no ideas. This is something that many are missing.
Vacationing with their stolen money.
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